This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hv_netvsc: Add check for kvmalloc_array
to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hv_netvsc-add-check-for-kvmalloc_array.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7a18dc6d2ecc59dd8b34a2a210ff8cf3088a5112
Author: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 14 10:01:25 2022 +0800
hv_netvsc: Add check for kvmalloc_array
[ Upstream commit 886e44c9298a6b428ae046e2fa092ca52e822e6a ]
As the potential failure of the kvmalloc_array(),
it should be better to check and restore the 'data'
if fails in order to avoid the dereference of the
NULL pointer.
Fixes: 6ae746711263 ("hv_netvsc: Add per-cpu ethtool stats for netvsc")
Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220314020125.2365084-1-jiasheng@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 7e66ae1d2a59..7117187dfbd7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -1587,6 +1587,9 @@ static void netvsc_get_ethtool_stats(struct net_device *dev,
pcpu_sum = kvmalloc_array(num_possible_cpus(),
sizeof(struct netvsc_ethtool_pcpu_stats),
GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!pcpu_sum)
+ return;
+
netvsc_get_pcpu_stats(dev, pcpu_sum);
for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
struct netvsc_ethtool_pcpu_stats *this_sum = &pcpu_sum[cpu];
